Limiter

- Now let's talk about using a limiter,…and there's an effect in Premiere that I really like,…It's called the Dynamics effect,…and all you need to do is type D-Y in the search field here…and we see the Dynamics effect,…and here, because my clip was selected,…all I needed to do was double-click it…and now the effect is added…to the effect controls panel.…I can click on Edit…and this is the Dynamics effect.…The Dynamic effects can be an AutoGate,…that means that when…the sound gets below a certain threshold,…it's going to cut.…

That rarely sounds natural, so I'm not going to use that,…I have a Compressor.…The multi-band compressor is much more powerful,…I guess, arguably, so I don't want the Compressor,…I don't want an expander.…The Expander does the opposite…of what a compressor does.…A compressor is going to attenuate sound,…the Expander is going to trigger…to make the sounds louder.…So I don't want to use the Expander either.…What I really want to use is the Limiter.…The Limiter affects only those short duration bursts…

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10/21/2015

Good audio makes for great video, and with Premiere Pro, you can make your audio sound great. In this installment of Premiere Pro Guru, Luisa Winters walks through the process of mixing audio—adjusting levels, adding transitions, and more—and then stepping it up a notch with some commonly used effects, such as EQ, reverb, and de-essing. She also includes tips for changing the length and speed of your audio tracks, recording scratch tracks, and exporting audio separately from video.